Comp 2673, Spring 2002

May 15, lecture notes



Reading Assignment:
    Complete Chapter 12

Class templates
Imagine that you wanted to make a smart array for integers.  This class
would keep track of the size of the array, and have functions for inserting
and deleting elements from the smart array.  Now say you wanted
to use the same code for a smart array of floats.  Do you have to rewrite
the entire class?  Class templates allow us to create a class that has
a varying (changing) underlying type associated with it. 
Today we'll develop this example, which is a very primitive "smart" array.
classtemp.cpp